YouTube is funneling me into a depression hole, what do I do?

It's easy to get stuck in an algorithm loop on Youtube. Whatever you do, do NOT click on any recommended videos about women's pole vaulting like the one below! If you do then before you know it you'll be getting recommended sketchy looking beauty pageants from Europe that might as well be named Miss Traffiked Human 2021.

Nigga I told you not to click on it!

Pet videos are a good thing to click on and there are a shitton of them. Find something like this and then just keep going through the recommended ones until GeoBeats Animals and The Dodo fill up your main page.

 
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There is some truth that many jobs don't pay shit for the amount of work done, and due to inflation, even well paying jobs feel like they don't pay enough.

That being said, right now is the best time to get a job since most jobs are desperate for workers. They are offering higher pay and extra benefits. The other thing is that now it's harder to get fired. You can slack off and not worry about it because employers are truly that desperate to keep people around.

(Not that I advocate being lazy, but I know most jobs will work you to death and impose stupid tasks that have nothing to do with your job. At my job, I've started skipping pointless mandatory meetings because I know they aren't going to fire me.)
 
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I liberally use the “not interested” button and now I have a comfy feed of cooking, astronomy, a few conspiracy theories, history and archaeology. I started yeeting political stuff and now I just have chill out noise in the background while I cook, clean and drive.

Please keep in mind the people issuing these doomer videos have no idea what the future holds any more than the crypto true believers saw this crash timing. Don’t get demoralized.

Remember: when you are young you have the most energy you will ever have. You can throw yourself into crazy hours and conditions that will be painful when you’re older. Look at crappy jobs as anthropological expeditions. This is your competitive advantage.

Also: consider sales. The skills you must learn to understand what makes people tick will serve you well in almost any career you end up in long term. Consider it extroversion training. My time waiting tables has served me better than any college course I ever took.

If I looked at the jobs I had in my twenties it would not have looked too promising from the outside, but I’m in a good place now. I do a job no one understands or is interested in, that is needed to keep the place running, so I get decent pay and great flexibility. And I like the people but don’t take their nonsense personally (this took me many many years to learn).
 
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Can't be optimistic when the dark future of a potential reset is coming. Once a conspiracy theorist, always a conspiracy theorist.
 
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Just watch some episodes of Cocomelon, the full album "Here Come the Warm Jets" and a Tunisian crochet tutorial. This pretty much broke the algorithm for me.
 
You have the full right to happiness. Don't let some doomers dissuade you from contentment homie!
 
"what do I do"
It's a simple fix; download the YouTube Unhook extension. It's that simple, and you might as well get the Youtube sponsor block as well.
 
This probably isn't going to help but YouTube is just telling you the truth in this case. All that shit can happen no matter what your education level is.

I don't see shit like this and keep my YouTube video feed well curated as much as I can. All I see is what I want to see.
 
I use a firefox add-on called unhook that just removes all recommended videos. I can choose whether or not to have comments visible.
I also block ads.
I can find things to watch by using my imagination to type things in, but that feels unhealthy so usually I just browse my subscription feed.
 
Random shit happens, violent and perverse stuff sells because it's morbid.
So that's what they sell. Simply don't buy it
 
Aoluce said:
Isn't the algorithm account based? So if you make a new account it will start you off "Blank" which can be done in case the algorithmic Gods have decided you like to watch some dumb shit that you don't actually want.
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They track your IP. If you create a new account in the same household they'll start throwing Jordan Peterson gobbledygook at you within a few days.
 
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